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STROY72 – :
This opens as spicy and fresh, you can smell the vintage origins, as it isn’t really like anything out right now.
I like it, it’s different, very inexpensive, it’s an occasional wear for me. It is at once not modern, but not old fashioned either.
DSE230686 – :
This has, in fact, been around since at least the late 60s, produced by either Yardley or Lentheric. At the time the concept of age-appropriateness for a perfume scarcely existed, and I wore it because it made me feel classy, elegant and mature, a quality to which I, together with most of my generation, aspired at the time. It was mid-priced; reassurimgly expensive, but not quite out of reach for a student. Its image was that of a perfume equally suitable for smart suits and cocktail dresses, its slogan “Whatever you wear, wear it with Flair.” In time it disappeared, as good things often do. Imagine my surprise when I spotted it recently on the shelf of a discount cosmetic shop! Not what it used to be, admittedly; the packaging was strictly utilitarian, and it cost £4.99 for 100mls. The sensible side of me announced flatly that it couldn’t possibly be any good at that price, but the optimist won with the argument that it wasn’t much money to risk, and you never know….. I took it home, and was delighted to find that it was pretty much as I remembered.
Flair is a discreet, powdery but not-too sweet floral with a reticent, veiled quality which means, I think, that it is unlikely to annoy anyone; a good office perfume. Sillage is moderate, longevity moderate to good. On me, at least, it emphatically does not smell cheap. In fact I tend to bracket it with St Laurent Y, though according to the listings they have hardly any notes in common; Flair has rose instead of the green/citrus notes; nevertheless the drydowns seem to me remarkably similar, and the left-overs of the morning spritz of Y marry very happily with the afternoon application of Flair.
Cheap at 5 times the price!